After looking at it repeatedly, Leo handed the piece of wood back to the old hunter, because he couldn't see how the energy was stably sealed inside the piece of wood, and he could only guess that the piece of wood itself was a special object that could absorb and preserve external energy.

"Sorry, we don't have this currency on hand. Sylvia also handed the piece of wood back to the old hunter.

The old hunter hurriedly shook his head and said, "It's okay, I'm just leading the way, with the ability of the two adults, it's not difficult to get out of the Black Forest, there is no need for the two of you to ......"

"We don't like to owe favors. Leo interrupted the old hunter, then took out a new Jinsa and handed it to the old hunter, saying, "You still have it, and if you think it is too valuable, you can go back to the village later, and you will help me collect as many books as you can, and if you feel that you are not going to go, you will not give me some ordinary coins." ”

The old hunter originally wanted to return Kinsa, but after hearing Leo's words, he hesitated slightly, he didn't really think that Leo wanted to commission him to collect some books, nor did he want any ordinary coins, these were just Leo's desire to find a few excuses for him to accept this gold coin and accept the amazing reward from the other party.

The old hunter, who had been very eager for this gold coin, saw that Leo had found a reason to accept the reward for him, and did not pretend to return the things anymore, but at the same time expressed great gratitude, he said that he would do everything possible to collect enough books before Leo left.

The group soon returned to the village, and the people who lived here, like the old hunter, rarely saw people from other places, and after seeing the old hunter leading two men and women in strange clothes into the village, they all stood curiously in the distance, as if they were looking at something rare.

The old hunter's actions made the old hunter feel embarrassed, and immediately scolded them a few words, driving them away, although the old hunter was not the head of the village, but his prestige in the village seemed to be very high, under his reprimand, everyone temporarily put away their curious eyes, and refocused on what they were doing.

The old hunter took Leo to his lodgings, took out two bottles of wine from his treasure and poured them for Leo and Sylvia, and then gave Leo and Sylvia a rest, and he went to help Leo collect the books and arrange a carriage to the castle.

"What do you think?" asked Leo, turning to Sylvia.

Sylvia picked up her glass, took a sip of wine, nodded slightly, and said, "The wine is good." ”

"Do you know what I'm asking?" Leo smiled, took a sip of the wine in his glass, nodded, and said, "The wine is indeed good." ”

Sylvia thought for a moment and said, "I guess the system here should be the city-state co-lord system in the early and middle of the Second Dynasty, the lord of each castle is a city-state lord with a lot of autonomy, and Lan Xi is the city-state co-lord has a certain influence on these city-states, but he does not have absolute control. ”

After hearing this, Leo also nodded slightly, and said, "I think so too," he paused, and said: "I just found that many people here have signs of mutation that are not small or small, not caused by extraordinary power, but by the mutation of the body itself, just like alien cells." ”

When Sylvia heard this, an association quickly appeared in her mind, and she said, "This is ...... with what the Seventh Research Institute is doing."

Although Sylvia didn't say it completely, Leo already understood what she meant, he nodded, agreeing with Sylvia's guess, and said, "It seems that someone from the Fran Empire should have been here, and even had some communication with the people here. ”

As he spoke, Leo pointed to an ordinary-looking sieve hanging on the wall of the room.

Sylvia's eyes also followed Leo's finger to look at the inconspicuous sieve, and for a while she didn't understand what Leo meant, but then Leo reported a year number, and she immediately realized why Leo thought that the French Empire and the Second Dynasty of the Black Forest continued civilization.

This very ordinary sieve in her eyes is indeed just an ordinary farm tool, its function is to screen crops, when using it, you can adjust the size of the sieve eye, and then screen out crops of different quality, so that farmers can specify different commodity prices.

This sieve can be seen in any farmer's house in the world of Velon, and it can be said to be the most ordinary farm tool, but when this farm tool appears here, then things are not so ordinary.

Because this farm tool was made 73 years ago, the person who made it was a scholar from the American California Agricultural College in the Mozambian continent, this scholar specializes in some steam machinery to help farmers and plantation owners in the Mozambique continent harvest crops more easily, and this sieve that has swept the entire vinylon world in a very short time is a farm tool that he made in his spare time, and this farm tool has become the best-selling farm tool in the world.

However, this farm tool that was originally only popular in the world of Veron appeared in the civilized world of the Black Forest, and it seems that this farm tool also seems to belong to a kind of ordinary farm tool, so Leo has reason to believe that this farm tool should be handed down from the world of Velon, and the only person who has the ability to do this in the entire Velen world is the Flange royal family who has the contract ring and can safely pass through the Black Forest.

After this speculation, Leo and Sylvia respectively found several things unique to the world of Veron in the room, but these things have undergone some modifications, and their appearance has changed a lot, but their core mechanical principles have not changed, and the careful Sylvia also found the steel seal mark of a famous machine factory in the flange on a part of a farm tool.

"If the Fran Empire communicates with here, then the high-level officials here should also know some things about the Fran Empire," Sylvia pointed to the clothes of the two of them, and said in a deep voice: "Our clothes are too conspicuous, and they don't fit in with the surrounding environment, so it's easy for people to see the problem and associate it with the Fran Empire." ”

"Indeed, we should change our clothes. Leo nodded, but there was no ready-to-wear store in this village, so naturally it couldn't solve the problem of their dressing, so Leo could only take out two long burqas from the Savile Kingdom and cover himself.

Although these two burqas still have a strong exotic atmosphere, they obviously can't attract much attention compared to the clothes they wear.

Not long after, the old hunter returned to his lodgings with a large backpack, and was stunned when he saw Leo and Sylvia covered with a beautiful robe, but he did not ask anything, put the backpack in his hand in front of Leo, and said, "My lord, all the books that can be collected in the village are already placed here. As he spoke, he took out more than a dozen silver-black wooden coins and put them on his back pocket, and said, "This is all the black coins I can find, and the value of these black coins will definitely not be comparable to what you gave me......

"No, that's enough. Leo reached out and picked up a black coin and looked at it, and the wooden coin he saw earlier, this black coin was more elaborate, and the number marked on it was larger, and the special energy contained in the black coin did not change, it seemed that the value of these coins did not lie in the special energy, but in the wood that could be contained in the special energy.

"Where's the carriage?" asked Sylvia.

The old hunter hurriedly said, "By the way, the carriage is ready, and the two adults can set off at any time." ”

"Didn't you say it would take a while for the carriage to go to the castle?" Sylvia asked.

The old hunter immediately explained, "Of course, it was someone else, and the two adults must have something important to do, so I called the old Todd fellow, and he had a carriage for rotation. ”

Seeing that the old hunter had already made arrangements, Leo and Sylvia didn't say anything more, Sylvia picked up the coins, and Leo lifted a bag of books and motioned for the old hunter to lead the way.

The old hunter was surprised to see that Leo had easily grabbed such a heavy backpack with one hand, but he was soon relieved, because in his opinion, it was nothing for the person from Lan Xi to lift a heavy backpack, and there was no need to make a fuss.

So the old hunter led Leo and Sylvia to the end of the street at the other end of the village, when he saw an old, but sturdy carriage pulled up in front of him, and there was already a coachman in the driver's place.

The coachman was dressed in a strange way, his whole body was tightly wrapped, and even his face was tied with strips of cloth, revealing only a pair of eyes.

"Old Todd was burned by a fire some time ago, and he covered his body in order not to scare others. Perhaps having discovered the sight of Leo and Sylvia, the old hunter immediately explained, "Two adults, please rest assured that Old Todd is the best driver in our village, and he will definitely be able to satisfy the two adults." ”

After listening to the explanation, Leo nodded, pulled the door and boarded the carriage, and Sylvia followed, sitting next to him.

The old hunter closed the door, patted the coachman's seat, and commanded the coachman, and saw the coachman drive out of the village with the two odd-shaped beasts of burden that pulled the cart, and after a little driving on the path of the plantation, he came up to a wider road, and the speed of the carriage increased.

As soon as Leo and Sylvia got into the carriage, their eyes fell on the light source in the carriage, which was not a brazier or a lantern, but a plant, a plant that emitted a bright light, which was obviously also endemic to the Black Forest.

Although the carriage was a little shaky, it did not prevent Leo and Sylvia from flipping through the books, and after the carriage was on the avenue, they each took out a book from their backpack pockets and flipped through it.

The book that Leo got is very interesting, it is a book dedicated to identifying the Black Forest gatherings, in this book it describes in great detail the endemic plants and animals of the Black Forest in graphic form, and marks their value, which is also helpful for Leo to understand the Black Forest species, but it is a pity that the book seems to deliberately not write down the reasons for the value of these plants and animals, such as the medicinal value of some plants, etc.

Leo reads books very quickly, in less than an hour, all the books have been read, these books do not involve any advanced knowledge, and most of them are some story books, but from these books Leo can learn a lot of daily knowledge related to this civilization, such as speaking, words, such as clothing, food, etc.

Under Leo's guidance, Sylvia also quickly became familiar with the unique words and deeds here, although her learning and acceptance ability is a little worse than Leo's, but after all, she is a spy background, come to a place, disguise herself as a local in the shortest time, is what she is best at, and soon she found the trick, and with Leo, use the coachman to do experiments to see if the coachman can see through their disguise.

The carriage was moving at a high speed, stopping twice on the road for Leo and Sylvia to get Leo and Sylvia moving, and the place he chose to stop was also in some small village, far from the border of the Black Forest.

Leo and Sylvia found that as they drove into the heart of the territory, there were more and more people with extraordinary powers, but the extraordinary powers they possessed were very weak, and they could hardly be felt if they were not carefully felt, and with the emergence of extraordinary powers, the mutations in these people became more and more obvious.

Just like in a village where the carriage stopped to rest, almost half of the people had obvious mutated organs, but the normal-looking people in the village did not have any disgust for these mutants, but they showed envy and jealousy for those who were obviously mutated, as if this mutation was a manifestation of beauty and a symbol of status for them.

When their carriage arrived at the lord's castle, they found that more than ninety percent of the villages outside the castle had obvious mutated organs, and what was even more interesting was that almost all of the nobles in Leon were inhuman, and the first local nobleman Leo and Sylvia saw when they got off the car was a maggot-like form, just with a human head and arms.

The identity of this maggot seems to be quite high, and all the people around him who are not mutated, or who are physically mutated, salute him when they see the maggot man approaching.

It's just that their etiquette is different, those who have no obvious physical mutation will kneel on the ground and appear very humble, while those with mutated organs will just bow down.

Leo and Sylvia didn't make any maverick moves, but they didn't intend to bow down to the maggot, and when the people around them gathered to bow down to the maggot, the two of them retreated to the corner of a house behind the crowd and waited for the maggot's team to pass before they came out.